First game with April patch

[Kupe Navigator]

And what we have is probably the best it has been so far. Does it have flaws? Absolutely. Is it in a fairly solid, playable state? Definitely. We just recieved a good patch, the biggest we've had so far. It would probably be more popular if people weren't so worried the game is done (based on what others have commented), as we can all see areas for improvement. We just recieved over a third expansions worth of content. As is, I feel confident saying it is better than Civ V, which was done by the point, and a very good game. It's okay for them to some time after a straight year of regular content before they offer anymore.

But there still is bugs and terrible Ai... ( better navial battles give me a break...) and we are left in the dust.
And AI is STILL TERRIBLE WITH CORPORATIONS MOD!

 

[Kwami]

What part of "final patch of the year" do you NOT understand? We might get one in 2022 or not but it is clear that Fraxis is giving civ a rest for now... until either civ 7 or NFP season 2 gets announced.

The part where they've been intentionally and obviously vague about if or when we'll get additional content or patches. The part where they've mentioned that they're still collecting feedback and bug reports.

 

[Kupe Navigator]

The part where they've been intentionally and obviously vague about if or when we'll get additional content or patches. The part where they've mentioned that they're still collecting feedback and bug reports.

And when will that happen? They said they are collecting but what use is collecting if they won't update the game and fix it? It would be nuce if we can get just improved ai in May but...

 

[Josephias]

Sheesh... we want everything for yesterday. Well I'd like a patch in May too, but I'll be fine with a patch in September or December. Being pressed to release may be not the best thing in doing things right.

It's been a fun year with the montly content, but we may need to lift off the gas pedal a bit. I guess they need time too to examine more calmly the post-NFP status and decide their next steps. As money drives, it would not be overconfident on an improved game that meets all our desires, but there's certain possibility there is more to come.

As for the thread topic, here playing Eleanor (England), Dramatic Heroes Monopolies. Continents & Islands with leaders/wonders/city states limited to Europe and surrondings (1st tier of civs, 8/12 is only europe, 2 tier of random civs, 4/12, is europe & surroundings - near-1middle east & north africa - got already Mali, Babylon & Byzantium)
Managed to snatch a Prophet to found a religion (Graal's Quest) following my intended roleplay, but lost Arthur to Hammurabi (it just didn't appear in the heroes pool )... well, I guess I'll have to do with Himiko (as a mix of Guinevere and the Lady of the Lake), and Mulan (as Parsifal).

 

[aieeegrunt]

And what we have is probably the best it has been so far. Does it have flaws? Absolutely. Is it in a fairly solid, playable state? Definitely. We just recieved a good patch, the biggest we've had so far. It would probably be more popular if people weren't so worried the game is done (based on what others have commented), as we can all see areas for improvement. We just recieved over a third expansions worth of content. As is, I feel confident saying it is better than Civ V, which was done by the point, and a very good game. It's okay for them to some time after a straight year of regular content before they offer anymore.

The AI is worse, which renders a lot of the rest pointless

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Moderator Action: Please get back on topic. This thread is not for discussing if the April Update is the final free patch, the future of the game, or bug fixes. It's about the setup and results of your first post-update game. ~ LK

 

[Disgustipated]

Finished my Earth TSL Spain game, now I want to play Khmer. But I also want to play TSL Mediterranean. Too bad Khmer can't be on the map. Decisions decisions.

 

[Bojmir]

Finally got a full Peaceful Domination Victory with English Eleanor. Been tying that forever.

 

[Abaxial]

Scythia
Small continents (which turned out to equal Pangea)
Standard map
Societies (Tomyris + vampires = nice) and Monopolies
LOTS of Kurgas

 

[UWHabs]

I opted for Khmer, and man, are they good. I got lucky to have some natural mountains to not worry about early AI invasions, with lots of rivers. I'm up to around turn 150 now and am nearing 1000 faith per turn (finding and aggressively suzeraining Chinguetti and Kumasi have definitely helper). I haven't even unlocked sewers or neighbourhoods and I already have like 4 or 5 cities that are 16+ pop, and they're basically all running out of tiles to work and I can't keep up with building districts.

I can basically buy anything with faith that I want - like, when you pull in 850 faith a turn, a great person that costs 2250 faith is pretty cheap. I did have a few "tense" moments where I did come down to the wire on whether I would be able to get a golden age, basically trying to figure out if I was better to rush an apostle to evangelize beliefs vs start an inquisition vs buy a unit for era score vs levy CS troops, basically cross-referencing how many points I get from each even as the era ticked down.

I think I'm feeling like going for the religious win - one more governor title to get double-promotions from Moksha, and then I can basically pump out 2 apostles a turn, and Poland won't know what hit them.

 

[Haig]

Did not finish my Spain game as I was exhaudtibg my empire to a forever war and many empires seemed to be way more advanced than me.

Seems like toughened up siege units make them survive sieges better, plus man at arms and line infantry help ai on wars too. Babylon used trebs and man at arms to really punish Russia.
Did not see difference in naval stuff but I finally saw anti air units.

Now I am about to start a small pangea game with only South and meso American civs and citystates, I am playing Inca.

 

[Leucarum]

I did an MP game with Zulu and while the changes are small I feel they do help. Getting great generals, production, plus a smattering of science and gold from a single, cheap district is not bad and did end up adding up.

 

[Socrates99]

I did a huge Earth TSL a d let the game pick for me. Wound up with Kongo. Only sharing Africa with Mali and a few CSs. Freddy and Phillip share Europe. Persia and Turks share the ME, Mongol Kubalai owns Asia with Hojo encroaching on his east coast. I think John Curtain is by his lonesome in Oceana.

Kind of fun, I've already wiped out Mali. Trying to figure out the better target next, Ottomans or Persians.

 

[Archon_Wing]

So been rolling several times for Canada for camps and tundra, only to keep getting maps with like 1 camp and this patch of tundra on the whole continent. Ridiculous. At least there's Auckland.

Had to do stuff with Entertainment complexes to keep those islands.

At the end I found some tundra on the other continent...

Spoiler :

Not much space for parks, but with tree planting, you can do it in a many places that aren't as exciting.

Spoiler :

Edit: Just noticed Pingala got assassinated.

 

[Haig]

You should conquer Dutch tundra, problem solved.

 

[aieeegrunt]

I had a multi era Bromance with Gilgamesh where we formed an alliance and saved each other from the evil Zulu and Persians

Then he went into a dark age and one by one his cities rebelled and defected to me till none were left

I killed my brother

 

[Unmitigated Gaul]

Played a Kongo game.

Primordial map, which gave me a marsh heavy spawn. I founded my Capitol in an area with I think 9 contiguous marsh plots. I eventually had to smash two for St Basils and for Mt St Michel, and a volcano smashed a couple others.

Sadly Arabia also had a marsh heavy spawn and beat me to Lady of the Reeds and Marshes.

I ended up rushing out a settler and then going for Etemenaki. While I sorted that out, Arabia did a great job forward settling me, built up a big army and surprise DOWed me at the end of the ancient era. Probably had a chariot, 4 warriors and at least 4 archers.

I was able to use the terrain well against the AI and made a very successful counter attack with Ngao Mbebas which are incredibly strong against archers now. A Ngao Mbeba in woods handles an archer like it’s a scout.

I ended up getting men at arms right at the end of the war, and they’re also pretty good.

I razed most of Arabia’s cities and pillaged/took their Capitol for the era points, before selling it back to them and bringing in Kongolese settlers to take the space they settled.

Primordial maps have a lot of space, and since I dominated Arabia so thoroughly I didn’t get any more meaningful combat. England was also nearby but due to a weird city state held choke point they had a had time settling many cities.

I did get to fight an industrial era city state emergency against Mali over Auckland. A nearby city state had 4 trebuchets that I levied and they were clearly more useful than catapults.

Eventually won a culture game. Game continues to be fun.

It was my best luck with Etemenaki yet. Not an April thing, but still it was great. I think I got something like 17 science at the end of the ancient era from building it.

 

[MrRadar]

I went for the new Mapuche game, no modes, standard-size-speed-disasters continents and islands, deity.

I have mixed impressions. On the one hand, the three new units were very nice to use, they certainly helped to break the Medieval deadlock. On the other hand, AI wasn't cooperating. My two closest neighbours: Spain and Scythia avoided Golden Eras like plague, alternating between Normal and Dark ones. As all other AIs, btw. Were they being clever? And with the AI not building many units, I could not loyalty flip a single city from kills, so here Lautaro's ability went to waste. Governor spam to have +15% culture and production in conquered cities was nice though.

Took out Spain, then Scythia (btw. it was Tomyris who declared on me, and with Formal War CB - you don't see one of those very often!), then lost the steam and took a DiploV exit at t265.

 

[Linklite]

...My two closest neighbours: Spain and Scythia avoided Golden Eras like plague, alternating between Normal and Dark ones. As all other AIs, btw. Were they being clever?

I doubt it. I've been checking recently (not sure why) and it's rare for AIs to get Golden Ages. In a map with around 7-10 AIs, only one or two will be in a GA at any given time.

 

[agonistes]

I did huge earth tsl marathon ++.

It took a few starts to pick civs that had room. I still had to firetune in starting ancient walls in all the capitals, and rome is an early game loyalty monster that ate gaul and greece rapidly.

I ended up with aztec, gaul, norway, rome, greece, scythia, egypt, zulu, mali, china, india, and japan.

I tried playing as vietnam, but india, viet, and china all start way too close to one another.

Ended up quitting. The map is too small for my tastes. I'll stick with eu iv until we get big maps again.

Plus the amazon had a non-ending forest fire, so I had multiple cities with +200 production and +200 food in the ancient/classical ages.